Appendix A – Doublespeak

Doublespeak has multiple forms. It is used to persecute, obscure, and confuse. I speculate also that it is used to make malevolent magic stronger.

One form is the same word having multiple meanings. This can be used to tie two or more of the meanings together. Words that have multiple widely ranging meanings work well for this.
Bond is a reasonable word to consider. Adjective 1, Noun 1, 2b, 3a, and 3d. Slavery, a legal relationship of restraint based on the debt of one party to the other. Noun 4 makes this a strong structure. This definition ties into a later story.

Bond
adjective

  • Archaic – bound in slavery
    noun
  • A relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests or experiences.
  • A connection between two surfaces or objects that have been joined together, especially by means of an adhesive substance, heat or pressure.
    — A strong force of attraction holding atoms together in a molecule or crystal, resulting form the sharing or transfer of electrons.
    — Literary – ropes, chains, or other restraints used to restrict someone’s movement or hold something in place.
  • An agreement with legal force
    — Law – a deed by which a person is committed to make payment to another.
    — A certificate issued by government or a public company promising to repay borrowed money at a fixed rate of interest at a specified time.
    — An insurance policy held by a company, which protects against losses resulting from circumstances such as bankruptcy or misconduct by employees.
    — A sum of money paid as bail.
  • Building – a pattern in which bricks are laid in order to ensure the strength of the resulting structure
  • Short for bond paper

Pitch

  • presenting an idea or persuasive argument (sales pitch, plug, promote)
  • Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
  • sticky tree goo
  • frequency
  • Set (one’s voice or piece of music) at a particular pitch
  • the steepness of a slope
  • declivity – a descending slope
  • the level of intensity of something
  • the distance between successive corresponding points (the teeth of a gear or threads of a screw)
  • throwing a baseball
  • a playing field
  • Golf – hit (the ball) onto the green with a pitch shot
  • Throw or fling roughly or casually (pitch the trash into the garbage)
  • Throw a fit – pitch a fit
  • To utter glibly and insincerely
  • To fall precipitously or headlong
  • Hit upon or happen upon something
  • To erect and fix firmly in place (pitch a tent)
  • (of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front and back move up and down.
  • Archaic – cover, coat or smear with pitch
  • Archaic – top, zenith
  • The portion of a route (as in mountain climbing or caving) between belay points
  • An outdoor site (as for camping or doing business)
  • An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump

Goat

  • a hardy wild or domesticated ruminant that has backward curving horns
  • a lecherous man
  • a scapegoat
  • buck & doe (dough) – both slang for money
  • Greatest Of All Time (GOAT)
  • the goat is also one of the symbols of the devil
  • the symbol for Capricorn in the zodiac

Spell

  • denoting the letters in a word
  • working an energetic creation

Curse/cursive

  • hurtful magic (can sometimes be made to bind)
  • a form of writing that joins the letters of a word (spelling) together

Cast/casting

  • a rigid protective covering that helps bone to mend undisturbed
  • the actors of a movie or tv show
  • to throw out with intent (fishing, magic)

Well

  • in a good or satisfactory way
  • in a thorough manner
  • in good health
  • sensible, advisable
  • archaic – lucky
  • very probably
  • a shaft sunk in the ground to obtain, oil, gas or water
  • archaic a water spring or fountain
  • short for inkwell
  • a depression made to hold liquid
  • a plentiful source or supply
  • an enclosed space in the middle of a building, giving room for stairs or an elevator or to allow for light or ventilation
  • The place in court where the clerks and ushers sit
  • A shelf beneath the counter of a bar on which bottles of liquor are stored
  • Physics – a region of minimum potential
  • (of a liquid) rise to the surface and spill or about to spill
  • (of an emotion) arise and become more intense

Present

  • In a particular place
  • Existing or occupying now
  • The period of time occurring now
  • Give or award formally or ceremonially
  • Show or offer
  • Law – bring (a complaint, petition or evidence) formally to the notice of a court
  • Formally introduce (someone) to someone else
  • Introduce or announce the various items of (a broadcast show) as a participant
  • Exhibit (a particular state or appearance) before the public
  • Medicine – (of a part of a fetus) be directed toward the cervix during labor
  • Hold out or aim (a firearm) at something so as to be ready to fire
  • A thing given to someone as a gift

Head

  • Director, leader
  • the leading element of a military column or a procession
  • the uppermost extremity or projecting part of an object: top
  • the upper part of a body containing the brain (intelligence), mouth (speaking, communicating) and sense organs (seeing, hearing, possibly tasting and feeling…)
  • A headache, especially one resulting from intoxication
  • The height or length of a head as a measurement
  • The antlers of a deer
  • A thing resembling a head either in form or relation to a whole
  • the cutting, striking or operation end of a tool, weapon, or mechanism
  • The flattened or knobbed end of a nail, pin, screw or match
  • The ornamental top of a pillar or column
  • A compact mass of leaves or flowers at the top of a stem
  • The edible leafy part at the top of such green vegetables as cabbage or lettuce
  • The front or forward part of something
  • The top of a page
  • The top of a drum
  • The foam on top of a glass of beer or the cream on top of milk
  • The source of a river or stream
  • The end of a lake or inlet at which a river enters
  • A promontory
  • The top of a ships mast
  • Short for headmaster
  • A person considered as a numerical unit, a number of cattle or game as specified
  • A body of water kept at a specific height in order to provide supply at sufficient pressure
  • a toilet or bathroom on a boat or ship
  • grammar – the word that governs all the other words in a phrase in which it is used, having the same grammatical function as the whole phrase.
  • Geology – a superficial deposit of rock fragments, formed at the edge of an ice sheet by repeated freezing and thawing and then moved downward
  • The obverse of a coin
  • To be in the leading position
  • Give a title or caption to
  • To move in a specific direction
  • Soccer – shoot or pass (the ball) with the head
  • Lop off the top part of a tree
  • equivalent to hood
  • Denoting the front, forward, or upper part or end of a specified thing
  • In nouns used informally to express disparagement of a person – ‘airhead, bonehead’, to denote an addict or habitual user of a specified drug – ‘crackhead, pothead,’ or to denote an enthusiast of a particular thing – ‘webhead’

Also, similar to the first, is a word that has one commonly used meaning and an unknown, archaic or other meaning. The user means the archaic or another meaning but also intends for it to be interpreted by the commonly used meaning. As an example, the word cover.
Legacy media covers news stories. Are they using definition 3 and actually reporting actual events, or definitions 1 and 5 and hiding the facts? Are they paid to do definition 8 to the public?

Cover – verb

  • Put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to conceal it.
  • Extend over (an area).
  • Deal with (a subject) by describing or analyzing its most important aspects or events.
  • (of a sum of money) be enough to pay (a bill or cost).
  • Disguise the sound or fact of (something) with another sound or action.
  • Aim a gun at (someone) in order to prevent them from moving or escaping.
  • Record or perform a new version of (a song) originally performed by someone else.
  • (of a male animal, especially a stallion) copulate with (a female animal), especially as part of a commercial transaction between owners of the animals.
  • Bridge – play a higher card on (a high card) in a trick.

Peace

  • Freedom from disturbance; tranquility
  • A state or period in which there is no war or war has ended.
  • A ceremonial handshake or kiss exchanged during a service in some churches, symbolizing Cristian love and unity.
  • Used as a friendly greeting
  • Used as an order to remain silent.

Absolute

  • Not qualified or diminished in any way; total
  • Viewed or existing independently and not in relation to other things; not relative or comparative
  • Grammar – (of a construction) syntactically independent of the rest of the sentence, as in. (of a transitive verb) used without an expressed object or (of an adjective) used without an expressed noun
  • A value or principle which is regarded as universally valid or which may be viewed without relation to other things
  • Something that exists without being dependent on anything else
  • Ultimate reality; God

Nice

  • Polite, kind
  • Pleasing, agreeable
  • Appropriate fitting
  • Well executed
  • Socially acceptable; well bred
  • Virtuous, respectable
  • Possessing, marked by, or demanding great or excessive precision and delicacy
  • Showing fastidious or finicky tastes: particular
  • Exacting in requirements or standards: punctilious
  • Archaic: trivial
  • In a pleasing way
  • Archaic: wanton, dissolute, coy, reticent
  • Archaic: silly, simple, ignorant, foolish, stupid – I’m not sure why this is considered archaic, people still use the word this way. It’s usually said sarcastically.

Another type of doublespeak are words with different spellings that sound the same. Sometimes praying is actually preying if the intent is malevolent. Rap (the music) can be an enveloping wrap. The energy, good or bad, sticks and becomes cultural. Country music and hip hop have similar, though less dramatically noticeable effects.

Daze, day’s – The day’s were a daze.
Week, weak
Weekend, weak end
morning, mourning – one is happy, one is sad
Pray, prey – As previously noted
Prophet, profit – A lot of the prophets (spiritual teachers) made a profit.
Rain, reign – A heavy rain/reign is unpleasant.
Raise, raze – one builds up, the other destroys.
Dual, duel – It was a dual duel.
Worship, warship – Worship is a warship.

A passage from the Thearnian bible is reviewed in the following story. Definitions of words are provided. It is interesting that a lot of the words have definitions that include references to the elements (air, water/nautical, thearn/landmass formations, fire), money/currency (I’m not sure thearn had money before the invasion), and fighting/conflict/war/violence/conquest/reign. The elements are used in some types of magic.